The Sears Home Service guy was just here. I had some hopes of a quick and inexpensive fix, having found in a web search that a lot of people have had the exact problem I had with this model refrigerator at around this age, and it's turned out to be the initiator for the compressor, which is a $30 part that takes about 10 minutes to replace.

I don't know why I entertained those hopes, because when there are two things that can be wrong with a thing, and one is cheap and quick to fix while repairing the other is catastrophically expensive or just plain impossible, I always get the second one. This time is no exception. The compressor itself has failed, and would cost more than a thousand dollars to replace.

So rest in peace, side-by-side fridge with ample freezer space and in-door ice dispenser. I may not see the like of you in these parts again. :(

--G.
of course that was $145 and two weeks of virus anxiety for absolutely nothing. of course it was. how could it have been anything else?
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